In Our Free Time
I haven't written in a week and a half! Sorry - I've been really busy. At the end of the blog, I'll make up for it, I promise.
Here's what we've been up to...
The weekend of the 14-16 we went to a family reunion (my maternal grandmother's side) at Lake Conroe. It turned out that everyone (other than my grandmother, parents, and my sister and her husband) was just coming for Saturday afternoon, but we were there the whole weekend. We ate barbeque, played putt-putt, swam, and even tried archery. I met a lot of extended family for the first time, which was neat.
Last week marked the half-way point for our 12 week challenge. We took measurements and weight. Neither Joe nor I were very happy with the results, which is disappointing. We didn't gain weight (even though we can tell we've added muscle), so we must have lost some fat... but it'd be nice to be able to tell it more.
We had the first meeting with our new small group from church (called ComGroup for Community Group) on Wednesday, minus three people. I'm excited about the group this year.
Joe spend this past Saturday in Nacogdoches at a Conflab (I'll let you ask him what that means) with some men from the type of church he grew up in. So I had a project day! I pretty much cleaned all day, but I did get started on the embroidery for a bedcover (half quilt half comforter) I'm making for us. I also experimented with drying our clothes outside. It was a hot, sunny day and our dryer doesn't work well, so they actually dried faster than if I had used the machine. I still fluffed the clothes with a dryer sheet (but no heat) for a little bit after they were dry. Wow, that sentence makes my life sound really boring. On Sunday we were given the first fruits of a friend's chicken (the first eggs they have laid since my friends got the hens), which was very neat. (See, that's not so boring!)
Okay, now for the reward I promised...
Sunday night Joe and I set aside some time to record music together. After a while, we decided we needed to take a break from the song we were working on and get back to our roots. Please enjoy this work of art.
Here's what we've been up to...
The weekend of the 14-16 we went to a family reunion (my maternal grandmother's side) at Lake Conroe. It turned out that everyone (other than my grandmother, parents, and my sister and her husband) was just coming for Saturday afternoon, but we were there the whole weekend. We ate barbeque, played putt-putt, swam, and even tried archery. I met a lot of extended family for the first time, which was neat.
Last week marked the half-way point for our 12 week challenge. We took measurements and weight. Neither Joe nor I were very happy with the results, which is disappointing. We didn't gain weight (even though we can tell we've added muscle), so we must have lost some fat... but it'd be nice to be able to tell it more.
We had the first meeting with our new small group from church (called ComGroup for Community Group) on Wednesday, minus three people. I'm excited about the group this year.
Joe spend this past Saturday in Nacogdoches at a Conflab (I'll let you ask him what that means) with some men from the type of church he grew up in. So I had a project day! I pretty much cleaned all day, but I did get started on the embroidery for a bedcover (half quilt half comforter) I'm making for us. I also experimented with drying our clothes outside. It was a hot, sunny day and our dryer doesn't work well, so they actually dried faster than if I had used the machine. I still fluffed the clothes with a dryer sheet (but no heat) for a little bit after they were dry. Wow, that sentence makes my life sound really boring. On Sunday we were given the first fruits of a friend's chicken (the first eggs they have laid since my friends got the hens), which was very neat. (See, that's not so boring!)
Okay, now for the reward I promised...
Sunday night Joe and I set aside some time to record music together. After a while, we decided we needed to take a break from the song we were working on and get back to our roots. Please enjoy this work of art.
Labels: 12 Week Challenge, Family, What's Happened
posted by kathryn at 5:27 PM
2 Comments:
Back to our roots... would that be "Pure Country" or "Pure Misery"?
hugs to you
Just remember that all that work is going somewhere good.
In all numbers I remain above my start number for over 6 months which is crazy but people have noticed!
Keep your chin up.
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